Will offers of resource wealth to the US and other powers help bring militia violence to heel in the Democratic Republic of ...

For decades, the Congo Basin was largely invisible to climate science. Now, a new generation of Central African researchers ...

The State Department has released the 23 countries that American tourists should reconsider traveling to before visiting.

Drawing on data from the CIVICUS Monitor Watchlist, Newsweek has created this map to show countries on the Human Rights ...

Rwanda appears to be betting on its reputation as a key security partner and sports destination to minimize any backlash to its involvement in the war.

International Women’s Day is an annual celebration on March 8 that pushes for women’s rights and honours their achievements.

More than a month after rebels captured Goma, the capital of DRC’s North Kivu province, humanitarian workers dispute the UN’s ...

Fighting by Islamic State and other terrorist groups over minerals and power has led to widespread killings and rape in the DRC. Disease, child slavery and Christian persecution stalk the population.

Nangaa, a leader in the River Congo Alliance (AFC) that is a military-political coalition to which the M23 belongs, is a former president of the DRC's electoral commission. Bisimwa and Makenga are ...

The Democratic Republic of Congo is 95% Christian ... The main violence plaguing Congo runs from regional political issues, like Rwanda/M23 (rebel group), to ethnic like CODECO, (an association ...

Democratic Republic of Congo, which is rich in cobalt, lithium and uranium among other minerals, has been fighting Rwanda-backed M23 rebels who have seized swathes of its territory this year.